Gnome Shell extensions not loading, no error message available

Question

I have two gnome-shell extensions that don't appear to be loading after upgrading to 3.24. In gnome-tweak-tool they have a warning sign icon with "Error loading extension", and nothing else. I tried using looking glass (lg), and it just says "Error", and that the extension "has not reported any errors".

How can I debug the extension to find out why exactly it's not loading?

Seismography

Answer 1

I found the error in the systemd journal:

$ sudo journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell

Seismography

Answer 2

Just simply run this on terminal:

gnome-extensions-app

and enable it to make the extensions work. Works perfectly with GNOME 40

Uvea

Answer 3

As mentioned on the Github page.

A Shell reload is required. Press Alt+F2 r Enter and the extension has to be enabled with gnome-tweak-tool or with dconf.

As mentioned on Dash to Dock's User reviews. Make sure you disable Ubuntu Dock if you are using this in Ubuntu, otherwise you are going to have conflicts.

To disable Ubuntu Dock type the following in terminal:

gnome-extensions disable [email protected]

Wham

my problem is solved with your reload + open tweak to enable Extensions – Rothberg

Answer 4

I also experienced the same error. I think I will like to state the procedures that I took to make mine to work, and then you can check to see if you got it wrong somewhere.

Here are the steps

First install the Gnome shell extensions package from the terminal

sudo apt install gnome-shell-extensions

And then reboot your system. After that, start GNOME Tweaks and you’ll find a few extensions installed. You can just toggle the button to start using an installed extension.

Next, go to GNOME Extensions website (GNOME User Themes Extensions) and download the extension with the latest version (Although, I often prefer to download the version next to the latest version, since it may be more stable).

Extract the downloaded file to the ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions (home/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions) directory. You can press Ctrl + H to show hidden folders. Create the extensions folder if you don't have it yet.

Now restart GNOME Shell. Press Alt+F2 and enter r to restart GNOME Shell.

Restart GNOME Tweaks tool as well. You should see the manually installed GNOME extension in the Tweak tool now. You can configure or enable the newly installed extension here.

That's all

I hope this helps

Anglicism

Answer 5

Loging in without wayland works for me.

Pyriform

Answer 6

My extension was not enabling. I just log out and log in back and ran this command.

gnome-extensions enable [email protected]

It worked in my case.

Cocktail